The 2021 Zhongguancun Forum will be held in Beijing from September 24 to 28. At the parallel forum Smart Healthcare Innovation Forum, Professor Dong Jiahong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that with the advent of an aging society, the incidence of chronic diseases has increased, and the medical demand and disease burden have risen. However, there are only 3.6 million practicing doctors in my country, and hospitals and beds are difficult to obtain. To meet the growing medical needs, especially the lack of primary medical resources. This is the reality of the imbalanced allocation of medical resources in China and the prominent contradiction between supply and demand. To solve such problems, we must implement supply-side structural reforms and systematically reshape my country’s health care service system.
Dong Jiahong said that in the past 20 years, the global medical and health industry has developed rapidly, but the differences between regions are still very significant. In the past 20 years, my country’s health undertakings have made remarkable achievements, the gap between urban and rural medical care has narrowed, and the world’s largest medical security network has been built. The number of basic medical insurances exceeded 1.3 billion, and the insurance participation rate exceeded 95%. The mortality rate of infants and young children dropped from 34.7‰ in 1981 to 5.4‰ in 2020, which has reached the forefront of the world’s middle developed countries. my country’s average life expectancy has reached 77.3 years, ranking 53rd in the world, which indicates that the development of my country’s health services is encouraging. However, my country’s medical and health services are facing great challenges, and the total expenditure on medical and health care accounts for about 6% of GDP. We only account for 1% of the global GDP input, and we have to serve the health of 20% of the world’s population. This is a very huge and arduous task, and Chinese medical workers have made great contributions.
Dong Jiahong pointed out that the key to the implementation of the Healthy China strategy is the transformation of the medical and health system from the past centered on treatment to health-centered, reshaping a new health and medical system aiming at the health of the whole people, and becoming a new type of health care system. The most urgent task of deepening medical reform. Whether it is a medical consortium or a health care consortium, it is necessary to carry out systematic integration through smart medical care, improve efficiency, and form a closed-loop multi-party collaboration and win-win big health medical service system. Smart medical care is to solve the contradiction between medical supply and demand in my country and increase costs. The only way to benefit.